Joe Root was born in 1990. He joined Yorkshire in 2009 and made his international test cricket debut for England in the 2012 Test series in India and made his ODI and Twenty20 international debuts on the same tour. He is currently the No. 2 ranked batsman in Test cricket on the ICC Player Rankings. Joe was crowned England's Cricketer of the Year for 2015-2016 after making more than 1,100 Test runs in a year. He became England's youngest World Cup centurion in 2015 and, having surged to the top of the International Cricket council Test batting rankings after playing an integral role in a 3-2 Ashes win over Australia, broke Kevin Pietersen's seven-year record for the most runs by an England batsman in a calendar year.